get_locus

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Turn a CANONICAL CITATION into the actual leaves that carry it. Aristotle is cited by Bekker number (1094a8, 1447a) and Plato by Stephanus number (Rep. 328b) — the references scholarship has used for centuries, which survive re-typesetting and are shareable in a way a scan page never is. USE THIS FIRST whenever a passage arrives as a canonical reference rather than a page: do not try to derive the page yourself from a book's pagination, which is what produced a wrong guess before this tool existed. Bekker numbers are unique across the whole Aristotelian corpus, so the number alone is enough and it also tells you WHICH WORK you are citing. Stephanus numbers restart in each of the three 1578 volumes, so pass work ("Republic", "Timaeus") — without it the response lists the candidate dialogues instead of choosing one. Returns every witness the library holds: the Greek reference edition and, where we have one, an English translation of the same lines, each with its scan page, a reader URL and a quote_api link — so you can compare the original against a translation at one reference. Then call get_quote with the returned book_id + page for the verbatim text and a citable shortlink. LIMITS, stated plainly: a witness is only returned where the reference is PRINTED on that leaf (or, in the two root editions, where a verified constant offset brackets it) — nothing is interpolated, so an empty result means this library holds no anchored leaf there, NOT that the citation is wrong; editions_searched shows what was consulted and the range each covers. Line numbers (the "8" of 1094a8) are not resolved — you get the right leaf and read the line off it. Two works can share a page where one ends and the next begins (Bekker 184 and 1447 are both such joins), and each leaf is filed by the running head printed on it, so a reference at the very start of a work may come back under its predecessor — always read other_works_at_this_reference before concluding a passage is absent. A bare number that exists in both systems returns Aristotle and Plato leaves together; check the system field on each.